Special citation for experimental film–Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (Mark Rappaport).

Special citation “to the filmmakers of It’s All True–directors Richard Wilson, Myron Meisel, and Bill Krohn, and editor, Ed Marx–for their historical work in assembling footage from Orson Welles’ lost 1942 Brazilian documentary.”

1994 Picture–Pulp Fiction

Director–Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)

Actress–Jennifer Jason Leigh (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)

Actor–Paul Newman (Nobody’s Fool)

Supporting Actor–Martin Landau (Ed Wood)

Supporting Actress–Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway)

Screenplay–Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (Pulp Fiction)

Cinematography–Stefan Czapsky (Ed Wood)

Foreign Language Film–Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Nonfiction Film–Hoop Dreams (Steve James)

Special citation for experimental films–Satantango (Bela Tarr) and The Pharaoh’s Belt (Lewis Klahr)

1995 Picture–Babe

Director—Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas)

Actress–Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas)

Actor–Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)

Supporting Actress–Joan Allen (Nixon)

Supporting Actor–Don Cheadle (Devil in a Blue Dress)

Screenplay–Amy Heckerling (Clueless)

Cinematography–Tak Fujimoto (Devil in a Blue Dress)

Foreign Language Film–Wild Reeds (Andre Technine‚)

Nonfiction Film–Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)

Special Citation–for experimental film to Latcho Drom (Tony Gatlif), an exuberant non-narrative Gypsy musical that deftly mixes documentary and fiction while spanning three continents, eight countries, and about ten centuries in wide screen and stereo

Special Archival Prize to I Am Cuba for a previously unreleased film (Michael Kalatozov, 1964)

1996 Picture–Breaking the Waves

Director–Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves)

Actress–Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves)

Actor–Eddie Murphy (The Nutty Professor)

Supporting Actor–Martin Donovan (The Portrait of a Lady)

–Tony Shalhoub (Big Night)

Supporting Actress–Barbara Hershey (The Portrait of a Lady)

Foreign-Language Film–La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol)

Screenplay–Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson (Mother)

Cinematographer–Robby Muller (Breaking the Waves and Dead Man)

Nonfiction Film–When We Were Kings (Leon Gast)

Special Citation to James Katz and Bob Harris for their restoration of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film Vertigo.

1997 Picture—L.A. Confidential

Director—Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential)

Foreign-language Film—La Promesse (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)

Actress–Julie Christie (Afterglow)

Actor—Robert Duvall (The Apostle)

Supporting Actor—Burt Reynolds (Boogie Nights)

Supporting Actress—Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights)

Screenplay—Curtis Hanson & Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential)

Cinematography—Roger Deakins (Kundun)

Nonfiction Film—Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

Special Citation to Charles Burnett’s Nightjohn, a film whose exceptional quality and origin challenge strictures of the movie marketplace.

1998 Picture—Out of Sight

Director—Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight)

Actress—Ally Sheedy (High Art)

Actor—Nick Nolte (Affliction)

Supporting Actor—Bill Murray (Rushmore)

Supporting Actress—Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love)

Screenplay—Scott Frank (Out of Sight)

Cinematography—John Toll (The Thin Red Line)

Foreign Language—Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)

Nonfiction Film—The Farm: Angola U.S.A.

Experimental—Mother and Son. Aleksandr Sokurov’s powerful and moving exploration, through non-traditional narrative means, of the intense relationship between a son and his dying mother.

Special Citation to Walter Murch, Rick Schmidlin, Bob O’Neil, and Jonathan Rosenbaum—the team behind the re-editing of “Touch of Evil”—for bringing Orson Welles’s already-classic movie closer to his original vision, and for sparking a renewal of interest in his body of work.

Special Citation for reprinting of an expanded edition of one of the seminal collections of film criticism, Manny Farber’s Negative Space.

1999 Picture—Topsy-Turvy and Being John Malkovich

Director—Mike Leigh (Topsy-Turvy)

Foreign-Language—Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer)

Screenplay—Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich)

Cinematography—American Beauty (Conrad L. Hall)

Actor—Russell Crowe (The Insider)

Actress—Reese Witherspoon (Election)

Supporting Actor—Christopher Plummer (The Insider)

Supporting Actress—Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don’t Cry)

Nonfiction Film—Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders)

Experimental Film Award–to Robert Beavers for his contributions to the field of avant-garde film as exemplified by his 1999 program in the New York Film Festival as well as his ongoing work as a visionary filmmaker and his activities in restoring and preserving the films of Gregory J. Markopoulos.

Special Citation–to James Quandt of Cinematheque Ontario: (A) for setting an exemplary standard for curators and archivists through his scholarly, analytic, and superbly written program notes. (B) in 1999, for his important work in bringing the complete films of Robert Bresson into the critical and public eye across North America.

Film Heritage Awards–to recognize the following extraordinary achievements in film preservation and restoration in 1999:

The U.S. theatrical release of the rediscovered camera-negative print of Jean Renoir’s “Grand Illusion” by Rialto Pictures.

The U.S. video and DVD release of Gaumont’s original version of Carl Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” by Home Vision, Inc. and Criterion.

The television premiere of the four-hour expanded version of Erich von Stroheim’s “Greed” on Turner Classic Movies.

2000 Picture – Yi Yi

Director – Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Erin Brockovich)

Screenplay – Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me)

Cinematography – Beau Travail (Agnès Godard)

Actor – Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls)

Actress – Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me)

Supporting Actor – Benicio Del Toro (Traffic)

Supporting Actress – Elaine May (Small Time Crooks)

Nonfiction Film – The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (Aviva Kempner)

Experimental Film Award – to Guy Maddin’s “The Heart of the World.” “Guy Maddin packs a feature’s worth of pyrotechnic wit into this six-minute tribute to the era of Russian Formalism, a gem of filmcraft and cinephilic intelligence.”

Film Heritage Award – to the National Film Preservation Foundation for “Treasures from American Film Archives,” its four-DVD anthology of 50 films, “for preserving and propagating a body of films of cultural and historical significance, with an emphasis on non-Hollywood films.”

Special Citation – to Michelangelo Antonioni “for the exemplary intelligence, creativity and integrity of his half-century-long career.”

Special Citation–“to Faith Hubley, who died in December 2001, “for a career devoted to exploring animation’s art and soul.”

2002 Picture — The Pianist

Director—Roman Polanski (The Pianist)

Foreign Language – Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón)

Nonfiction—Standing in the Shadows of Motown (Paul Justman)

Screenplay—Ronald Harwood (The Pianist)

Actor—Adrien Brody (The Pianist)

Actress—Diane Lane (Unfaithful)

Supporting Actor—Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can)

Supporting Actress—Patricia Clarkson (Far from Heaven)

Cinematography—Far from Heaven (Ed Lachman)

FILM HERITAGE AWARD “to Kino International for its theatrical release of the restored long version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and its DVD releases of Lang’s Die Nibelungen and the special boxed set of classic D. W. Griffith silent features and shorts.”

SPECIAL CITATION “to the UCLA Film and Television Archives for its long-lived and heroic work in film preservation, restoration, and resurrection, including its recent rehabilitation of rehearsal and test footage from Charles Laughton’s Night of the Hunter.

SPECIAL CITATION: To Richard Schickel, Brian Jamieson, and Warner Bros. Home Video for their reconstruction of Samuel Fuller’s The Big Red One.

SPECIAL CITATION: To Turner Classic Movies for the breadth and intelligence of its film programming and its commitment to film history.

FILM HERITAGE AWARDS to new DVD’s:

The Leopard (Criterion) – for assembling a stunning edition for the home video debut of Visconti’s masterpiece.

John Cassavetes – Five Films (Criterion) – for bringing together a core collection of work from America’s most influential independent filmmaker

Fritz Lang Epic Collection (Kino) and M (Criterion) – for the ongoing, revelatory work of the German Film Archives and making it available to Kino and Criterion for excellent editions

“More Treasures from American Film Archives” (National Film Preservation Foundation) – for drawing much deserved attention to the excellent work of America’s national and regional film archives.

2005 Picture – Capote

Director – David Cronenberg (A History of Violence)

Foreign-Language Picture – Head-On (Fatih Akin)

Nonfiction Film—Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)

Screenplay—The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)

Cinematography—2046 (Christopher Doyle, Kwan Pun-leung, Lai Yiu-fai)

Actress—Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)

Supporting Actress–Amy Adams (Junebug)

Actor—Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)

Supporting Actor—Ed Harris (A History of Violence)

EXPERIMENTAL AWARDS

SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE (1968) and TAKE TWO ½ (2005), William Greaves’ remarkable investigation into the nature of the acting process and power relationships on a movie set.

13 Lakes, Ten Skies, and 27 Years Later, the three 2005 productions of James Benning. Few have done more over the last thirty years to expand the sensory and temporal boundaries of moving pictures.

FILM HERITAGE AWARD

“Unseen Cinema, the 7-disc DVD box set collection of pre-1942 American avant-garde cinema assembled by Anthology Film Archives, Bruce Posner, and David Shepard — a massive and unprecedented undertaking made in concert with 60 other film archives and preservation organizations across the globe.”

SPECIAL CITATION

The NSFC commends and congratulates our colleague Kevin Thomas for his 43-year tenure as a movie critic at the Los Angeles Times, for his tireless championing in the heart of the world’s movie capital of the power and beauty of independent, experimental and foreign film, for his long and important service to moviegoers around the industry, the country and the world.

2006 Picture – Pan’s Labyrinth

Director—Paul Greengrass (United 93)

Nonfiction film—An Inconvenient Truth

Screenplay—The Queen (Peter Morgan)

Cinematography—Children of Men (Emmanuel Lubezki)

Actress—Helen Mirren (The Queen)

Supporting Actress—Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada and A Prairie Home Companion)

Actor—Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)

Supporting Actor—Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)

Experimental Film—Inland Empire (David Lynch)

FILM HERITAGE AWARDS:

Jean-Pierre Melville’s “Army of Shadows” (1969), released by Rialto Pictures for the first time in the United States.

Museum of the Moving Image for presenting the first complete U.S. retrospective of French filmmaker Jacques Rivette, including the premiere American showing of the director’s legendary “Out 1.”

The results of the meeting were dedicated to the memory of Robert Altman.

Restoration of Rashomon by The Academy Film Archive, The National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kadokawa Pictures, Inc. with funding provided by Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation and The Film Foundation.

This four-DVD set is the result of an eight-year effort by the British Film Institute, the Cineteca Bologna and Lobster Films in Paris to gather and restore early generation, full-frame 35-millimeter prints of Charles Chaplin’s earliest short comedies, allowing these historically and artistically important films to be seen for the first time in generations in versions approaching their original luster.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment for the Elia Kazan Collection

This collection of fifteen films represents a rare collaboration among studios – including Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures – in bringing together the core body of the work of one of America’s most influential filmmakers.

The Film Foundation

for twenty years of providing financial support and moral leadership for the preservation and restoration of motion pictures from around the world.

Upstream

Long believed lost, John Ford’s 1927 backstage comedy was one of 75 silent-era American films discovered in the collection of the New Zealand Film Archive and repatriated under the auspices of the National Film Preservation Foundation with the collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, Park Road Post Production, and Twentieth Century Fox.

On the Bowery

Lionel Rogosin’s revolutionary 1956 semi-documentary about men on New York’s skid row was restored by Davide Pozzi of the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna in cooperation with the Rogosin Heritage and Anthology Film Archives and distributed in the U.S. by Milestone Films.

Word Is Out

A collective production of the Mariposa Film Group, this 1977 documentary was among the first films to give a free voice to members of the gay and lesbian community. Restored by Ross Lipman for the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Outfest Legacy Project and distributed by Milestone Films.

The meeting was dedicated to the memory of our colleague Peter Brunette.

2011 Picture – Melancholia

Director – Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life)

Nonfiction Film – Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)

Foreign Language – A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)

Screenplay – A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)

Actress – Kirsten Dunst (Melancholia)

Actor – Brad Pitt (Moneyball, The Tree of Life)

Supporting Actress – Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life, Take Shelter, The Help)

Supporting Actor – Albert Brooks (Drive_

Cinematography – The Tree of Life (Emmanuel Lubezki)

Experimental – Seeking the Monkey King (Ken Jacobs)

FILM HERITAGE

BAMcinématek for its complete Vincente Minnelli retrospective with all titles shown on 16 mm. or 35 mm. film.

Lobster Films, Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema and the Technicolor Foundation for Cinema for the restoration of the color version of George Méliès’s “A Trip to the Moon.”

New York’s Museum of Modern Art for its extensive retrospective of Weimar Cinema.

To the Museum of Modern Art, for its wide-ranging retrospective of the films of Allan Dwan.

“Too Much Johnson”: the surviving reels from Orson Welles’s first professional film. Discovered by Cinemazero (Pordenone) and Cineteca del Friuli; funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation; and restored by the George Eastman House.

British Film Institute for restorations of Alfred Hitchcock’s nine silent features.

To the DVD “American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive.”

FILM STILL AWAITING AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION

Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)

Hide Your Smiling Faces (Daniel Patrick Carbone)

DEDICATION: The meeting was dedicated to the memory of two distinguished members of the Society who died in 2013: Roger Ebert and Stanley Kauffmann.

2014 Picture – Goodbye to Language

Director: Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

Nonfiction Film: Citizenfour (Laura Poitras)

Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)

Cinematography: Mr. Turner (Dick Pope)

Actor: Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner)

Actress: Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night and The Immigrant)

Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)

Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)

FILM HERITAGE AWARD

To Ron Magliozzi, associate curator, and Peter Williamson, film conservation manager, of the Museum of Modern Art, for identifying and assembling the earliest surviving footage of what would have been the first feature film to star a black cast, the 1913 “Lime Kiln Field Day” starring Bert Williams.

To Ron Hutchinson, co-founder and director of The Vitaphone Project, which since 1991 has collected and restored countless original soundtrack discs for early sound short films and features, including the recent Warner Bros. restoration of William A. Seiter’s 1929 “Why Be Good?”

DEDICATION: The meeting was dedicated to the memory of two distinguished members of the Society who died in 2014: Jay Carr and Charles Champlin.

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